The best of WoW.com: April 2009

April rolled around, and so did patch 3.1 and Ulduar -- a huge, all-encompassing raid undergo that pitted you against Titanic creations and Yogg-Saron, distant relation of C'thun. Later in the month, a revamped Noblegarden went springy to howls of oppose from players who found every of their foodstuff spawns camped, and we got whatever unsettling news that someone was one-shotting Ulduar bosses.

Seriously?

Seriously.

A recording pass to Grid: Grid is digit of the best all-around mods you crapper use, but evenhandedly discouraging to configure. Paxxz of Feathermoon walks you through it with a enthusiastic recording guide.

BRK fans post a good-bye: In the primeval conception of the year, we forfeited both Phaelia and Big Red Kitty to RL demands. BRK fans place unitedly a good-bye recording for everyone's favorite Dwarf hunter. /salute BRK.

Are we existence excited most the incoming expansion?: Swing and a hit!

Why we should wait an treatment declaration at BlizzCon: Another stroke and a hit!

Officers' Quarters: Want loot? Buy us a server: Bribery -- the thinking-man's artefact to intend ahead. Or not.

PETA to stop WoW feat to oppose accolade slaughter: PETA makes inroads into WoW. Players are not trusty what this is meant to fulfill with ingame animals respawning same clockwork.

Official Ulduar cinematic revealed: This haw or haw not have been described as "so stuffed with intend that pieces of intend are actuation discover of it into little intend puddles and spilling over into the Sewer of Awesome." Now with new, non-craptastic looks for major ingroup leaders! Player base wonders if this courtesy crapper be long to their possess characters.

Classy dual specs guide: Each of our collection columnists wrote a pass to dual-speccing your possess toon and the merits of portion combinations.

Varian Wrynn is right: Fantastic content piece by Daniel Whitcomb on why the long-vanished king of Stormwind is so misunderstood. We generally think it's a intense idea to carry so much character need and backstory to comics and books more players module never see.

Activision-Blizzard is not Blizzard: nihilist brings whatever much-needed sanity to the communicating surrounding the corporate entity now famous as Activision-Blizzard, and also lent a valuable insider's view of how the changeover compact the grouping actually employed for Blizzard.

Player receives developer item in the mail, one-shots Ulduar: We weren't trusty what to attain of this news most a contestant using a developer item to roflstomp Ulduar (then spanking newborn raid content) when we first started effort tips most it, but after whatever officer impact on Alex's part, it became manifest it was true. Alex also figured discover how it belike happened, and Lesley adventurer interviewed the contestant at the edifice of it all.

15 Minutes of Fame: Dislocated but not garbled (part 1) and (part 2): Lisa's 2-part discourse with Lileya of EU-Lightbringer, a contestant who has to impact through the myriad problems created by Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in visit to play, struck a chord with many of readers.

Loot, rationality, and the Sunwell effect: "People are relentlessly rational...(and they) are hurried to notice, evaluate, and take the most efficient effectuation of character advancement." Given that Blizzard's design decisions have such an impact on social interaction ingame, how do they intend the results they want?

2009's drawing to a close, and we're patch up the most interesting articles we've publicised every year, digit period at a time. Join us every period for the incoming twelve life with this year's best of WoW.com!

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